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it's the law. >> i know it's the law. we're all aware that it's the law. we are committed to do that. an to comply with the law. whether it was a law or not. >> thank you. i appreciate that very much. i want to ask about the north korea situation and in particular interaction if you had ay interaction with your unterdan mr. secretary, fromchina and one of the know that the administration shares, is that north korea's very dependent upon china for the economic viability including fuel trading and in my slew, china could end some of the deeply troubling and bellicose behavior we are seeing from the leader of north korea, i know additional defense asset in the area because we are concerned about the north korea. if i can get a comment from secretary hagel or general dempsey about the chinese and what interactions we've had and how we can encourage them to tell north korea to knock it off? >> thank you. i will begin then i know general dempsey will say something. he noted he will talk about the leader for china in a couple of dais. i have spoken to my chinese
it's the law. >> i know it's the law. we're all aware that it's the law. we are committed to do that. an to comply with the law. whether it was a law or not. >> thank you. i appreciate that very much. i want to ask about the north korea situation and in particular interaction if you had ay interaction with your unterdan mr. secretary, fromchina and one of the know that the administration shares, is that north korea's very dependent upon china for the economic viability including...
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it's written in to law to continue. given that list of threats, and given the increase in risk that is occasioned, it would be fair to say that the sequester i.t. is the most security risk this country faces right now? well, it's certainly as i indicated in my testimony, it is consuming us, the intelligence community leadership for what it what we see happying to the capability and importantly the expectations of people seem to have. for our having this global insight. that's going to be very hard. if we sustain sequestration through 2021, which the law calls for, in fact if we go through another year of sequestration, as i said in my testimony to the committee and the stay before the house imedges committee. we are going have to rethink ence ecau like to add this.be the same. i want to e reemphasize the senior leader in the ic. in just to reemphasize what director clapper talked about. with do not want to damage that vital component of our capability. the sequestration, as you know provides us almost no flexible. not j
it's written in to law to continue. given that list of threats, and given the increase in risk that is occasioned, it would be fair to say that the sequester i.t. is the most security risk this country faces right now? well, it's certainly as i indicated in my testimony, it is consuming us, the intelligence community leadership for what it what we see happying to the capability and importantly the expectations of people seem to have. for our having this global insight. that's going to be very...
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the postal service is, a law-abiding arm of the federal government. congress passed the law. we reviewed it. we complied with it and informed customers which we did last week. our customers require certainty especially as something as fundamental as our delivery schedule. and so, we announced that we would delay implementation of our new schedule until we gained legislation giving us the ability to move forward, mr. chairman, we need the flexibility under the law to implement our new delivery schedule. we need the ability to develop, and price products quickly. the ability to control our health care and retirement costs. the ability to switch to a defined contribution retirement system for newly hired employees. the ability to quickly realign our mail processing and delivery and retail networks. we need a more streamlined governance model. we kneeled more flexibility in the way we leverage our workers to. contrary to arguments we hear from some parties it is not enough to merely res prefundingf retire health we can implement the five-year business plan. close, i'm sorry the $
the postal service is, a law-abiding arm of the federal government. congress passed the law. we reviewed it. we complied with it and informed customers which we did last week. our customers require certainty especially as something as fundamental as our delivery schedule. and so, we announced that we would delay implementation of our new schedule until we gained legislation giving us the ability to move forward, mr. chairman, we need the flexibility under the law to implement our new delivery...
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are presumptively lawful. so there is no doubt, at least in scalia's mind that a background check is consistent with the second amendment. the gun lobby also argues that background checks are ineffective. you've heard this argument, haven't you? pass all the laws you want and all the law-abiding citizens will live by them but the criminals won't. here's what they fail to note. nearly two million prohibited purchasers have been blocked from buying a gun since background checks went into effect. they were so stupid, so careless, they tried to buy a gun anyway. they were stopped. the argument, of course, then goes why are there so many gun crimes committed? well, because they get guns through other means which is pore of the bill. straw purchasers, for example, through the ads in the newspaper that i mentioned earlier. and the argument that unless a law is airtight and will stop all gun violence, we shouldn't pass it; are we going to use that standard for speeding on highways? are we going to use that standard fo
are presumptively lawful. so there is no doubt, at least in scalia's mind that a background check is consistent with the second amendment. the gun lobby also argues that background checks are ineffective. you've heard this argument, haven't you? pass all the laws you want and all the law-abiding citizens will live by them but the criminals won't. here's what they fail to note. nearly two million prohibited purchasers have been blocked from buying a gun since background checks went into effect....
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and by law they have to keep the record. and by law, they cannot use that as a registration. cannot by law, even in our bill we even make sure that you cannot use any type of information for registration. and we said if you try to do it, if your government agency or a person that works for a government and you use any of these records, it's a felony with 15 years of imprisonment. that's how much this bill protects my rights as a law-abiding gun owner. we think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every gun sold at a gun show. we've talked about this before. the law today says that if i go to a gun show and i go and there's a dealer, a licensed dealer, that dealer still has to do a background check on me and keep the proper report. but i could go to a table over or go outside in the parking lot, and nothing is required of me. nothing. and all we're doing is taking current law and making it uniform so everybody plays by the same set of rules. we think it helps tremendously. we talk about the criminals and people who have been adjudicated t
and by law they have to keep the record. and by law, they cannot use that as a registration. cannot by law, even in our bill we even make sure that you cannot use any type of information for registration. and we said if you try to do it, if your government agency or a person that works for a government and you use any of these records, it's a felony with 15 years of imprisonment. that's how much this bill protects my rights as a law-abiding gun owner. we think it's reasonable to provide...
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this includes the lives of lawful gun owners, the lived of law enforcement and the lives of ctheic violence. state or local governments that release private gun owner information will be penalized 5% of their federal program funding. this includes the release of private information on individuals 0 who have licenses to purchase or who possess or who carry firearms. the funding that's withheld will then be redistributed to the states that are in compliance. this amendment will ensure that gun owners across the nation do not have their private gun owner information publicly released. thank you, mr. president. and i urge all my colleagues to support the amendment. mr. leahy: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: this is a case of washington being big brother and telling each one of the states whether it's wyoming, vermont, or connecticut here's what you have to do. we have no idea how it's going to affect them, we do know it's going to cut off a lot of money to law enforcement because it's telling states even though states, legislators have gone out for the
this includes the lives of lawful gun owners, the lived of law enforcement and the lives of ctheic violence. state or local governments that release private gun owner information will be penalized 5% of their federal program funding. this includes the release of private information on individuals 0 who have licenses to purchase or who possess or who carry firearms. the funding that's withheld will then be redistributed to the states that are in compliance. this amendment will ensure that gun...
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law enforcement. the fbi worked with the canadian law enforcement. i refer you to them for more details on this, but this successful cooperation illustrated the close relationship we have with canada on so many important issues like foreign affairs, trade, emergency preparedness, and security. it was a welcomed announcement by the canadian government. yes? >> the president back in syria, chemical weapons, a red line that would trigger unspecified u.s. action. was the administration made aware in advance they would lay down accusations today and go public with them? if it's true, what were the consequences be, and could that -- >> i'm not going to speculate about consequences. what i'll say is that the president made clear that the use of or transmission of chemical weapons including transition to nonstate actors would be unacceptable in the president's view, unacceptable to the united states. we have made clear we made clear about reports of chemical weapons made by, in syria, it's also important to note that the use of chemical weapons is difficult
law enforcement. the fbi worked with the canadian law enforcement. i refer you to them for more details on this, but this successful cooperation illustrated the close relationship we have with canada on so many important issues like foreign affairs, trade, emergency preparedness, and security. it was a welcomed announcement by the canadian government. yes? >> the president back in syria, chemical weapons, a red line that would trigger unspecified u.s. action. was the administration made...
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what this law does is allow states that already have laws on the books to carry out the implementation of those. so, again, our citizens -- we have no income tax. if the country and if society continues as is and sales tax continues to erode because of internet sales coming in from other places, what eventually could happen this our tate is we'd have to move to an income tax. so, you know, our citizens like it the way it is. i'm glad that this legislation is where it is. i hope it's going to become law, because i believe it's something that really creates fairness, if you will, in the marketplace so that all of those -- all of those who are treating -- who are selling goods in the state of tennessee and other places are treated exactly the same. now, i've heard some arguments from my friends in the participation community talking about -- in the financial community talking about this opening the door some kind of financial transaction tax. i'm on the banking committee and we discuss a the although of issues relative to financial thugs and transactions. i know of no reason anybody shoul
what this law does is allow states that already have laws on the books to carry out the implementation of those. so, again, our citizens -- we have no income tax. if the country and if society continues as is and sales tax continues to erode because of internet sales coming in from other places, what eventually could happen this our tate is we'd have to move to an income tax. so, you know, our citizens like it the way it is. i'm glad that this legislation is where it is. i hope it's going to...
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from harvard law school. after law school she was law clerk to judge donald porter of the district court of south dakota, and judge david hanson of iowa on the eighth circuit. she could easily have commanded a big salary with a top law firm but instead for over 0 years has opted for public service and long hours as a public defender. we are fortunate she seeks to continue her public service to iowa and our nation by serving as a federal judge. madam president, let me conclude with two additional notes about ms. kelly's nomination. first if confirmed she will only be the second female judge in the history of the eighth circuit court of appeals, a court established in 1891. while 56 men have sat on that court to date there has only been one woman, diana murphy from minnesota. secondly, president obama has nominated approximately 100 former prosecutors to the federal bench including one that i recommended, former u.s. attorney stephanie rose, to the southern district of iowa. among recent presidents that is the
from harvard law school. after law school she was law clerk to judge donald porter of the district court of south dakota, and judge david hanson of iowa on the eighth circuit. she could easily have commanded a big salary with a top law firm but instead for over 0 years has opted for public service and long hours as a public defender. we are fortunate she seeks to continue her public service to iowa and our nation by serving as a federal judge. madam president, let me conclude with two...
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so they're going want a public defender that goes gets the law. that does the bidding. that's a real challenge. and in nawrn for a long time the system was also that one public derchesd assigned to one courtroom and the same judge. they were always arguing before the same judge. ..
so they're going want a public defender that goes gets the law. that does the bidding. that's a real challenge. and in nawrn for a long time the system was also that one public derchesd assigned to one courtroom and the same judge. they were always arguing before the same judge. ..
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and so another thing that i would do, more of this point involves local laws and federal law, but if i were in charge of that school district i would be lobbying to allow teachers to have concealed carry, to have a gun locked up in a desk drawer, you know, for the principal demands. ultimately, that's the only thing i know of that might've saved any lives in the situation. we have gun registration up there. the cities that we are the most significant gun control seem to have the most significant crime in our country. >> what's wrong with the concept of universal registration? >> i think one doesn't go to the problem if the problem is mass shootings by young men at gun free zones, registration doesn't deter these young men. registration works for law-abiding citizens. nearly if you look at crime, nearly 90% of crime is committed by guns that are bought illegally already. if you look at gun shows, i think in 2004 they did a survey of inmates and it was like one, 1.7% are committed with guns from gun shows. i think, let's, if the background checks were, why do we enforce what we've got.
and so another thing that i would do, more of this point involves local laws and federal law, but if i were in charge of that school district i would be lobbying to allow teachers to have concealed carry, to have a gun locked up in a desk drawer, you know, for the principal demands. ultimately, that's the only thing i know of that might've saved any lives in the situation. we have gun registration up there. the cities that we are the most significant gun control seem to have the most...
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we urge you to cooperate with law enforcement authorities. the resources, the fbi and jttf allow swift action which will hopefully yield quick results that does not diminish the diligence and perseverance combing through the high volume of evidence and leads we're processing right now. we're just beginning the process on that path. thank you very much. >> i'm gene marquez, acting special agent in charge, atf, boston field division. at this time atf as partial nrt, national response team activation. we're bringing our explosive specialists here to the scene and we'll work jointly with the fbi and its partners on the jtt. if we have certified explosive specialists. we have explosives enforcement officers. we have special agent bomb tex and we have k-9s that are trained to detect any explosive devices or any residue. at this time we have approximately 30 forensic specialists en route or on the scene and to dispel any rumors there were rumors floating around there were seven devices at one point. that is not true. i think that happened as a resul
we urge you to cooperate with law enforcement authorities. the resources, the fbi and jttf allow swift action which will hopefully yield quick results that does not diminish the diligence and perseverance combing through the high volume of evidence and leads we're processing right now. we're just beginning the process on that path. thank you very much. >> i'm gene marquez, acting special agent in charge, atf, boston field division. at this time atf as partial nrt, national response team...